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Slugs
Why this pick
Like Squirm, this is gloriously straight-faced small-town creature horror built around an everyday invertebrate becoming a wet, body-burrowing menace.
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MOVIE1976 1h 32m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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The Nest
Why this pick
Its isolated island setting, practical gooey effects, and escalating infestation give it the same scruffy regional creature-feature energy as Squirm.
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Kingdom of the Spiders
Why this pick
This similarly earnest 1970s rural panic turns a familiar crawling pest into an increasingly overwhelming siege on an ordinary community.
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Bug
Why this pick
Another mid-1970s tale of nature gone awry, it pairs a bizarre scientific trigger with fiery insect horror and an enjoyably grim practical-effects sensibility.
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Frogs
Why this pick
For Squirm’s slow-building backwoods unease and ecological revenge atmosphere, this offers a swampy, eccentric 1970s nature-strikes-back variation.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
When a powerful storm knocks Fly Creek, Georgia's power lines down onto wet soil, the resulting surge of electricity drives large, bloodthirsty worms to the surface and out of their soil-tilling minds. The townspeople soon discover that their sleepy fishing village is overrun with worms that burrow right into their skin. Inundated by hundreds of thousands of carnivorous creatures, the terrorized locals race to find the cause of the rampage before becoming tilled under themselves.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Don Scardino
Mick
R.A. Dow
Roger Grimes
William Newman
Quigley
Carol Jean Owens
Lizzie
Patricia Pearcy
Geri Sanders
Jean Sullivan
Naomi Sanders
Peter MacLean
Sheriff Jim Reston